Definitions
A literary work that expresses ideas or emotions using condensed language.
It emphasises the musical qualities of language by using techniques like rhyme and metre.
What is poetry?
Identical sounding syllables
What is rhyme?
The poet who wrote the sonnet Ozymandias
Who is Percy Bysshe Shelley?
The emotions behind the words.
The poet's attitudes towards the subject matter.
What is tone?
When words or phrases are used more than once, to create emphasis or rhythm.
The speaker in the poem
Who is the persona?
What is rhyme scheme?
What is a couplet?
A figurative language technique where something is compared to something else, by using like or as.
What is simile?
Ideas or feelings evoked in addition to a literal, dictionary definition
The structure and rules that determine how a poem is constructed
The poet who wrote
When none defame us,
No restriction tame us,
Nor colour shame us
Who is Oodgeroo Noonuccal?
Definition of sonnet
A poem that is 14 lines, traditionally in iambic metre, from the Italian for 'little song'
A figurative language technique where something is compared to something else, directly (without like or as).
What is metaphor?
Poet who wrote the lyrical poem 'A Quoi Bon Dire ' (1923)
Who is Charlotte Mew?
Poetry that follows a fixed set of rules about a metrical pattern, rhyme or number of lines
What is fixed form?
The pattern of sounds perceived as beats
What is rhythm?
The part the connects the sestet and the volta in a sonnet
What is a volta or turn?
Figurative language that uses a concrete image to suggest an abstract idea.
For example, the colour red is a concrete image and danger is an abstract idea.
What is symbolism?
The ordinary language people use, without patterns of metre or rhyme.
What is prose?
Poetry that does not have a consistent metrical pattern
What is free verse?
A metrical pattern of two syllables where the first is un-stressed and the second is stressed.
For example, the stress pattern in 'about' is (.a.BOUT.)
What is an iamb?
Five examples of fixed forms
Five types of sensory imagery
Visual, Auditory, Olfactory, Tactile, Gustatory
What a text is about and what the composer has to say about the subject.